On 05/09/12 21:50, Jan Kara wrote:
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I have some troubles understanding the barriers thing, can you help me?
In the past some blockdevices would not provide / propagate the
barriers, e.g. MD raid 5 would not. So filesystems during mount would
try the barrier operation and see that it wouldn't work, so they would
disable barrier option and mount as nobarrier.
However the flush was always available (I think), in fact databases
would not corrupt (not even above ext4 nobarrier, above a raid5 without
barriers) if fsync was called at proper times.
So first question is : why filesystems were not using the flush as a
barrier like databases did?
Second question is : was a nobarrier mount (ext4) more risky in terms of
data or metadata lost on sudden power loss?
Thank you
Asdo
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